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Release Timing: Generally Available on February 25, 2026 as a Feature Option Regional Availability: Globally Supported Customer Type: All Customers Available with: Canvas Key Takeaway: The Course Accessibility Checker is a course-level tool that enables instructors to identify, remediate, and validate accessibility issues…
Release notes outline upcoming customer-impacting changes that are expected to display in beta and/or production environments. Please note that features considered for future development are not included in the notes. [info callout] Unless otherwise stated, all features in this release are available in the Beta environment…
Hello, This may be a feature that many people wouldn't use, but it would help us a lot. Background We use the blueprints function heavily in our organization, which helps when we need quick fixes or larger updates to materials. Our programs, which tend to last months rather than days like our classes, include a lot of…
There are so many irritating places where multiple clicks are needed to do simple. Often a single box would solve the problem. For example, not submitting a comment. What do you think I do when I press cancel? I'm going to go back find the submit button (that was probably just slightly out of view to begin with) submit it…
In a previous entry to this series, we introduced you to the Canvas Course Spotlight program, which offers Cornell students the chance to highlight and recognize design elements of Canvas courses that have positively impacted their learning experience. We also discussed the general patterns among the recognitions we…
Hi everyone, We're currently deploying Canvas Outcomes across one of our larger courses, and it's quite the lengthy and manual process. We're having to look up Course Learning Outcome alignments in our Curriculum Maps, deploy the right CLOs in the right rubrics, and then manually track which ones we have done and when. I'm…
I am setting up a question where there are three hotspots on an image, and the learner is required to click somewhere in each of them to be marked as correct. The marker is allocating full points if all marks are placed inside ANY of the hotspots - so, if a learner clicks three times in exactly the same location, they…
With Flipgrid becoming part of Microsoft Teams and closing on September 30th, has anyone found a good LTI alternative to Flipgrid? Thanks!
Imagine you are a middle-schooler, and that "missing" button is the only thing that will get you to even somewhat begin to care about whether or not you do your work. Your teacher has warned you a million times not to ask her if something will be graded, but because of the years you have spent in the broken American…
Hello! I'm new to Canvas as of Spring Semester 2026 and I am curious if there is a key detailing the meaning of various icons that present next to assignments. The 3 I see most often are (a) a green circle with a stick figure in it: (b) what looks like a rocket heading north east: and (c ) a piece of paper with a pencil on…
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